Prologue Part One. Before (1924). Jude Star (Winter). Young ghosts Life masks A son Into another life Richard Henry Pratt and Charles Star (Spring). An honest lunatic Over there San Francisco Nape No better plan Everything blue Opal Viola (Summer). Bloom Victoria Bear Shield (Fall). Victory! Part Two. Aftermath (2018). How to fly What were drugs The other Fruitvale The only thing alive Superblood Restoration Who can say Indian? The box Double A Birthday The cut people Blanx Gray area Rave Alcatraz Doubled up inside Too many seasons Just wait Ocean Beach The black blooms Part Three. Futures. Rehab Dead letter mail.
Summary
"Colorado, 1864, Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison-castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father's jailer. Under Pratt's harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines. In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in 'There There' -- warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts -- asking what it means to be the children and grandchildren of massacre. 'Wandering Stars' is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts." -- Jacket flap.
Note
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Orange, Tommy, 1982- Wandering stars. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
